This may be an SFQ, but shouldn't the application choose its own look and feel? I have various Java apps, some use the Metal L&F and others use the Windows one. Why force me?
Because properly implemented all the current toolkits would call the native widgets so you can change the native widgets all at once, without having 10 different widgets displayed on your system at once.
Yep, but Average Joe still can't write a solid program and probably never will be able to write anything more than simple scripts.
I will agree it might be possible for average joe to use a database-like program efficently, but I cannot imagine a program that simplifies a relational database to non-techie level.
Databases are like programming, you can make it easier for non-techies to make crap, but you can never make it easier for non-techies to produce a quality DB. You can only marginally improve the level of crap produced.
Some things just require a deeper understanding of math like concepts than a lot of the population isn't willing to have. DB design is one of those.
Alright, since you seem to love this new scheme of changing the index cost from a batch job to file creation time (for all files, all the time), please explain to me one good example that uses said filesystem.
I still cannot think of one that is not already handled better through a userspace app.
Also, a properly niced indexing system on my Linux/osx box has never once bothered me. Just because Microsoft can't get it right doesn't mean it's a broken solution.
I'm working on it, but I've never really developed a big Linux app before and I'm having serious troubles figuring out how things work over here.
I guess I'm spoiled by modern "IDE" platforms, but gtk feels like shit (though I have a semi-working gtk prototype done) and I don't particularly like KDE. That and I still haven't figured out how makefiles and configure are supposed to work so I'm using a shell script that works on my computer.
So yeah, unless someone else gets started I won't have anything released until about that time =p.
By most of us you mean those of you who don't use a Mac.
iPhoto does all of that well, without mangling the filesystem.
Other than photos/mp3's I am hard pressed to find an example that a good background indexing system with a fully featured 'contains text' search feature doesn't already handle. And to be honst I don't really want my filesystem to become fubared because they want to accomidate what should be handled in a userspace app for photos/mp3s.
Welcome to the real world. I take it you've never put a product on market before if you don't think the current Linux can be turned into a desktop system easily.
Yes, but attracting people to a project through mythical points is frankly not going to work.
Expecting people to do work for free because you're going to give them points is silly. If people were going to contribute to such a 'auditing' task in their spare time a OSS site to do it would already exist.
The only way to guarntee things will happen is money.
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So if the price were to drop to what you say tomorrow, you'd be bitching cause it's not $0.25/$0.50?
You can never please some people.
Add code morphing and self encryption with a random keygen and I'll be impressed.
Well if you want to take that road, programming Java is not part of computer science.
I would expect a computer science grad to be able to learn Java fluently in less than a month.
Yes, but you should only use sentances you could stick a word such as however between; however, the word however can be omitted in informal english.
This may be an SFQ, but shouldn't the application choose its own look and feel? I have various Java apps, some use the Metal L&F and others use the Windows one. Why force me?
Because properly implemented all the current toolkits would call the native widgets so you can change the native widgets all at once, without having 10 different widgets displayed on your system at once.
ED registration is not considered a "life support system."
Yep, but Average Joe still can't write a solid program and probably never will be able to write anything more than simple scripts.
I will agree it might be possible for average joe to use a database-like program efficently, but I cannot imagine a program that simplifies a relational database to non-techie level.
Yep, I do that.
The latest Red Hat is not fully compatible with the early Red Hat, either.
/etc directory changed or what?
What the hell does that mean? Are you talking the
That made no sense, you can't compare a file format to an operating system...
Databases are like programming, you can make it easier for non-techies to make crap, but you can never make it easier for non-techies to produce a quality DB. You can only marginally improve the level of crap produced.
Some things just require a deeper understanding of math like concepts than a lot of the population isn't willing to have. DB design is one of those.
Wow, so basically your saying that you don't pay microsoft for those operating systems that it runs on?
You sir are a flipping moron.
Where the hell are your 9x vs 2k numbers coming from?
Last I checked, 2k just barely took the lead in the past year or two.
Just because the hardware is old (for good reason) doesn't mean the software hasn't evolved.
That's the most ludacrist notion I've ever heard.
We are talking about end users, and yeah Windows security is abysmal.
Alright, since you seem to love this new scheme of changing the index cost from a batch job to file creation time (for all files, all the time), please explain to me one good example that uses said filesystem.
I still cannot think of one that is not already handled better through a userspace app.
Also, a properly niced indexing system on my Linux/osx box has never once bothered me. Just because Microsoft can't get it right doesn't mean it's a broken solution.
No shit.
I'm working on it, but I've never really developed a big Linux app before and I'm having serious troubles figuring out how things work over here.
I guess I'm spoiled by modern "IDE" platforms, but gtk feels like shit (though I have a semi-working gtk prototype done) and I don't particularly like KDE. That and I still haven't figured out how makefiles and configure are supposed to work so I'm using a shell script that works on my computer.
So yeah, unless someone else gets started I won't have anything released until about that time =p.
By most of us you mean those of you who don't use a Mac.
iPhoto does all of that well, without mangling the filesystem.
Other than photos/mp3's I am hard pressed to find an example that a good background indexing system with a fully featured 'contains text' search feature doesn't already handle. And to be honst I don't really want my filesystem to become fubared because they want to accomidate what should be handled in a userspace app for photos/mp3s.
With iPhoto I can do that now.
Congrats, so revolutionary.
*rolls eyes*
Introducing: Keywords!
Oh my god, they've invented iPhoto!
*giggles*
I have a 2.4ghz p4 with 1g ram and a ati radeon 90000.
It runs dog slow on my machine as well.
The game just sucks, get over it.
Have you tried fps gaming on x86 laptops?
The situation really isn't all that much better over there.
How dare you correct the disinfo?
Are you a terrorist supporter?
People like you are going to hell!
(please note sarcasm)
That displacement is called marketing.
Welcome to the real world. I take it you've never put a product on market before if you don't think the current Linux can be turned into a desktop system easily.
Yes, but attracting people to a project through mythical points is frankly not going to work.
Expecting people to do work for free because you're going to give them points is silly. If people were going to contribute to such a 'auditing' task in their spare time a OSS site to do it would already exist.
The only way to guarntee things will happen is money.
They seem to be there to me, it's just that no one has stepped up and packaged it.
That and someone needs to write a gimp replacement, the gui for gimp is fugly.